Chapter 1 – Village troubles
It's a warm cloudy spring day at the Grand Chase castle. It's been around four months since the battle at Kaze'aze castle and the knights have been enjoying themselves since missions have been quite scarce lately. Most of which a solo knight could handle in a day
The castle itself was a good size for a group of eleven people. The castle gifted to the group as a thank you for ridding the world of the evil witch Kaze'aze. Around the castle was a very well kept garden to have a good atmosphere and at back was a large field surrounded by a dense forest both of which was used by the knights for training. Each knight had their own personalized rooms. The rooms connected to a long hallway which was accessed from a grand stair case near the entrance of the castle. And right to the stairs case was a door which opened to be a large grand hall. The hall itself taking up maybe one fourth of the castle was used for gathering of nobles and meetings with the Knight Master whenever she would visit the knights. And now we have the kitchen which was left as soon as you walked into the hall. The kitchen itself was very well kept thanks to Arme's love of cooking. A meal was currently being prepared.
Three of the knights were prepping a meal for the entire group. Arme was currently stirring a large pot of meats and vegetables over a flame made from her magic. Lire at her side was cutting other vegetables for a salad and standing right behind her was Amy who would hand any ingredient the mage and archer needed.
"Amy grab a few more tomatoes please." Said Lire "Roger captain!" replied the pink haired girl as she quickly hoped her way to were the vegetables were kept in a small storage closet.
"Amy can you bring some peppers and carrots too!" yelled Arme when she notched the dancer hopping away.
"How's the stew coming along Arme?" asked the archer "Really good!" replied the mage gleefully "I know everyone is going to love It." in a few more seconds the dancer jolted back in carrying only the peppers in hand "No carrots or tomatoes." Amy said as she passed the peppers to Arme.
"Huh? Really?" Lire said with a concerned tone "Great just Great." grumbled Arme.
"Amy can you go to the village market and buy some for us?" asked Lire "Yes sir!" Replied the dancer saluting while she did. "Maybe she should take someone with her." Asked Arme.
At that moment Lass had walked in from the hall.
"Hey they forced me to ask if the foods almost ready so um… Is it almost ready?" said the thief with a very annoyed expression on his face
"Lass?" Arme said "Perfect go with Amy"
"Where am I going?" the thief asked but before he could get an answer his arm was grabbed by the overly excited Amy and was being pulled towards the front door
"Hey wait!" Lass shouted "Oh be quite and just come silly" Amy giggled as she was now pulling him down the path leading to the village
Now entering the village a bit south of the castle the two knight were walking towards the square
"Ok so why are we here?" asked an annoyed thief
"We are missing ingredients for lunch so we need to go buy some" replied the dancer skipping while she spoke
"And I am here because?" An even more annoyed thief asked "O hush! Just enjoy the walk." grumbled Amy "Its nice coming to the village"
After a few minutes of walking in silence a small boy came running through the street in a big rush.
"Excuse me out of the way" yelled the boy as he ran through a group of people on the street.
The boy was moving at too quick a pace and came to a sudden halt when he crashed into the blue thief.
The boy quickly got up "sor…" the boy began until he gazed at Lass.
The thief just gave a quick glance into the boy's eyes and knew why he didn't finish that word
The boy was shaking "Fear. He's scared of me." thought Lass to himself "I'm sorry" the boy said as he quickly ran off
Lass' annoyance quickly turned to depression
"Its ok Lass most people are just not use to having knight living so close" Amy said having seen the sadden look on the thief's face.
"You sur…." But the thief was interrupted as a group quickly surrounded the dancer.
"Amy!Amy!"yelled the group as they began praising the dancer.
Amy just gave off a nervous laugh knowing this would not help Lass believe the statement she just made.
Lass just gave a quick glance and continued to walk alone.
"Huh? Lass wait!" Amy yelled as she notice the thief walking away.
"Excuse me. Sorry. I have to go." The dancer politely said as she pushed herself through the crowd to run after the thief.
After a few more minutes of a very silent awkward walk the two arrived at the square and were on the way to the vegetable merchant's stand.
Now standing in front of the merchant's stand it could be seen that the merchant himself was facing away from the knights counting the stock.
"Excuse me." Said the dancer calling to the merchant.
"Ah yes how can I …." The man fell silent as he turned around to see the thief standing there.
"Again just like the boy" Lass thought to himself.
"Um we need tomatoes and carrots" Amy quickly said hoping it would change the mood.
"Yes coming right up" said the merchant snapping out of the gaze he had on Lass.
The merchant put the items asked for in separate bags and handed them to the dancer and in turn she quickly paid the amount asked for.
"Ok we have what we need lets go home" Amy said trying to sound cheerful.
Lass just gave a quick glare. "Whatever." The thief mumbled and began to walk off.
"I'm so sorry Lass" Amy whispered to herself knowing he wouldn't hear and began to follow after him.